Topic: Conficker C is scary as hell

[sam]

oh yes! I love this thing.

[Rik]

No, it's entirely in this world.

I wonder if this was a drive-by infection, and just looking at the header was enough?

[Simon]

I wasn't aware that could happen, Rik.

[Rik]

Drive-by infections are becoming more commonplace, but so far they have been confined to websites. I suspect it's but a small step to email.

[Clive]

This is a very worrying development because there is little we can do to protect ourselves.   

[Rik]

Of course there is, stay off the net and revert to pen and ink.

[chorleydave]

Only last week I clicked on a link from bbc.co.uk/sport to the home page of the Zimbabwe Cricket Federation and as soon as the page opened Avast alerted me that it had intercepted a Trojan.  Fortunately, Avast dealt with it and several more scans have turned up nothing.

[davy51]

It's getting very bad
If you dont have a firewall and anti virus running along with some type of anti spyware you are going to get infected

I have run across many infected sites while following links and some of these are bad
The last one I got took 3 days and a lot of work just to get rid of it so I could get on the net safely again

There are some now as you delete them or quarantine them They install themselves in another part of your computer and they must be followed from folder to folder while disconnected from the net and restore turned off



You can switch to mac or linux but as soon as they become popular they will be infected the same as windows is now